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The officers, Chaplains, and Surgeons belonging to the regiment from Polk County, are as follows:  Nathaniel McCally, Dr. J. C. Bennett, Robert Lusby, Wm P. Davis, Jno. O. Skinner, Ebenezer E. Howe, C. J. Clark, Jno. G. Hanna, Hezekiah Van Dorn, William G. Swim, Josiah Hopkins, William P. Meekins, Jonathan J. Wright, Geo. M. Bently, Steele Kenworthy, John W. Wright, Julian Bausman, Wm. Rahm, and William C. Baylies.  Dr. W. P. Davis, Regimental Surgeon, was for many years a resident of Des Moines.  He was a large, portly man, finely educated and accomplished.  He served his county in both branches of the General Assembly.  He was a prominent member of Fifth Street M. E. Church, and died in 1866, lamented by all who knew him.  His son, John S. Davis, member of Company A, (34th) and Hospital Steward, a genial and pleasant young man, died at Chicago, February 11, 1863.  Captain Robert Lusby, clerk for many years in the employ of Mills & Co., died at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, from poison accidentally taken, February 20th, 1865.  At the time of his death he was on General Crocker's staff.  He was a brave, good man, and a capable officer.

Dr. J. C. Bennett, first Major of the Tenth, was a Mormon General at one time, belonging to the Nauvoo Legion.  He was one of the early inhabitants of Polk City.  Josiah Hopkins, of Hopkins' Grove, was an efficient soldier and a devoted Chaplain.  He was one of the first to respond to his government's call for troops. 

The privates of Company A, reported dead, are: William Spencer, Caswell Murray, Gideon and Isaac Fletcher, Edward S. Dinwiddie, George W. Courtney, Stephen S. Bean, John Baker, John Bard, James Lewis, Isaac Nussbaum, Thomas and Andrew Murray, Lemuel Terrill, John T. Rule, Sergeant Peter B. Mishler, Jonathan Williams, and George Skidmore. Want of space forbids farther amplification in reference to these dead heroes.

The dead of Company B, same regiment are: George M. Bentley, John F. Fink, William F. Stanton, Robert Overton, Thomas H. Reed, John Keeney, Jacob K. Davis, Jerome Updergraph, and Ephraim Pierson.

The dead of Company G are:  Joseph Miles and John Lafayette Replogle.  The dead of Company H is:  Sergeant Oliver O. Mosier, brother of the talented and genial shorthand Reporter, C. A. Mosier.  The dead of Company E, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry are: Robert Lindsley, Robert Woodward, and John L. Milton.

Source: Centennial History of Polk County, Iowa by J. M. Dixon, Blind Editor, printed 1876, pp. 119-120. Names placed in bold to increase readability.